apt

comparative apter · comparative more apt · superlative aptest · superlative most apt

1. Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited.

   apt punishment

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   an apt metaphor

   a river […] apt to be forded by a lamb

   1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC

   While we to Jove the pure libations pay, / Than Jove what apter claims the hallow'd lay?

   1755, Callimachus, “The First Hymn of Callimachus. To Jupiter.”, in William Dodd, transl., The Hymns of Callimachus, […], London: […] The translator [William Dodd], […], →OCLC, page 1

   Synonyms: appropriate, meet, suitable, applicable, apposite, ad rem, well-placed, felicitous

2. Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards.

   that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers

   1886, Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books

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   This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of its leaves by a leaf-cutting ant.

   1874, John Lubbock, Scientific Lectures / On Plants and Insects

   Since sick people were apt to be present, he could not always depend on a lively young crowd in the same ward with him, and the entertainment was not always good.

   1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168

   On Wednesday night, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against a new California law that makes physicians subject to professional discipline for sharing COVID-19 "misinformation" with their patients. U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb concluded that California's definition of misinformation is unconstitutionally vague, failing to give doctors fair notice of which conduct the statute covers, which is a basic requirement of due process. That vagueness is especially problematic in this context, Shubb said, because it is apt to have a chilling effect on speech protected by the First Amendment.

   2023 January 26, Jacob Sullum, “A Federal Judge Blocks California's Ban on Medical Advice That Promotes COVID-19 'Misinformation'”, in Reason, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2023

   Synonyms: disposed, inclined, liable, predisposed, tending towards, bain, disposed, fain

3. Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn.

   an apt scholar

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   a pupil apt to learn

   Fulfill your pleasure. Live a thousand years, / I shall not find myself so apt to die.

   1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]

   Synonyms: fit, prompt, expert, qualified, ready, able, artful, habile

plural apts · alternative apt.

1. abbreviationAbbreviation of apartment.

   Where our apt used to be they built a fancy condominium high-rise. Which at a lowly income none of us could ever really quite afford.

   2010, David Dondero, Just a Baby in Your Momma's Eyes

plural APTs

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of automation presses tooling.
2. UKabbreviationinitialismrail transportInitialism of advanced passenger train.
3. USabbreviationAbbreviation of apartment, preferred by the United States Postal Service; compare Apt. and apt..
4. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of advanced persistent threat.

   The FBI has linked the incident to a North Korean APT it tracks as TraderTraitor, which the agency has been monitoring since 2022 for its attacks on blockchain companies.

   2025 March 6, Ryan Naraine, “How Social Engineering Sparked a Billion-Dollar Supply Chain Cryptocurrency Heist”, in SecurityWeek

5. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of arbitrage pricing theory.
6. UKabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of anatomical pathology technologist.
7. abbreviationinitialismbiochemistryInitialism of acyl protein thioesterase.

1. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of automatically programmed tool: a high-level language for numerically controlled machine tools.
2. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of advanced packaging tool: a package management system used by Debian and Debian-based distributions, also used by other Linux distributions.
3. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Alabama Public Television.
4. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of American Public Television.

plural Apts

1. A surname from German or Yiddish.

1. A commune of Vaucluse department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

   While the work of the contemporary artists in the show is avant-garde, it does not overwhelm the colorful faience made by the Faucon family, seven generations of ceramicists who operated a factory in Apt, a town in the Luberon Valley, from 1890 until 2002.

   2009 January 30, Wendy Moonan, “An Old-School Collector With Ideas on Beauty”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022